Marshall more focused on visits
With the SAT behind him, Iman Marshall has now turned his focus to his all-important official visits and plans are starting to formulate.
The five-star cornerback from Long Beach (Calif.) Poly still has not finalized any dates but Marshall intends to visit his original five of Notre Dame, Michigan, Florida State, LSU and Oklahoma.
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"This is going to be a big thing, most importantly because it's make or break," Marshall said. "It's getting closer to the time of signing day so all these visits are going to be important.
"I'm really looking forward to taking a lot of these visits. I'm looking forward to seeing the campuses and the lifestyles and everything that goes along with it will be important. Right now all five are still intact and nothing has changed at all."
Marshall, the top-rated cornerback and No. 3 prospect overall by Rivals.com, is closely focused on setting up his Notre Dame visit first. It could come for the Irish's final home game next weekend or he could wait a while longer but he thinks going to South Bend will happen sooner than the others.
"We're really trying to figure out Notre Dame," Marshall said. "That should be one of my first ones. We're trying to figure out if we're going to go to their banquet or one of their games. The other ones are going to be after the season."
That means Marshall, the second-best prospect in the California state rankings, will probably visit Michigan, Oklahoma, Florida State and LSU in January, weeks before National Signing Day.
Through all this, Marshall also wants to squeeze in unofficial visits to numerous Pac-12 schools, some of which are new to his list. UCLA, USC and Stanford have been considered three serious contenders in his recruitment and now others in the conference have emerged as well.
"I still have to go up to Stanford over my winter break to visit," Marshall said. "That is one of the schools I'm really interested in so I want to go up and see how the campus is as well as Oregon and Arizona State."